Author: Tom Holland
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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When Lord Byron gives in to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave in the mountains of Greece, his fate as the world's most formidable and sensuous vampire is sealed.
Author: Tom Holland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671534264
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When Byron travels in the mountains of Greece, he falls under the spell of a vampire.
Author: George O'Connor
Publisher: First Second Books
ISBN: 9781596437616
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Retells in graphic novel format how Hades kidnaps Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, and brings her to the Underworld, while a grief stricken Demeter condems the Earth to an eternal winter until Zeus intervenes.
Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525520902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco's army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? Through visits back to his parents' village in southern Spain, interviews with survivors, and research into the murkiest corners of the war, the author pieces together the life of this enigmatic figure and of an entire generation. This sui generis work combines intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, war stories, and road trips, finally becoming a transcendent portrait of a country's indelible scars--a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.
Author: Tom Holland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671024116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Lord Byron, the poet, tells how he became a vampire and recounts his adventures with other vampires in Greece's struggle for independence from Turkey. He is getting old and the only way he can regain his beauty is to drink his child's blood. Will he do it, can he do it? The poet ponders.
Author: Steve Cole
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473532450
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known... Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death. The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start. Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious.
Author: Steven Brust
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429997338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The long-awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After Two hundred years after Adron's Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn't what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire's power, of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life. Now the descendants and successors of the great ad-venturers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, con-vinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong . . . . For even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight, plot, and conspire as they breathe, and so do their still-powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges, in-scrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain...and, unex-pectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir, young Zerika, is discovered—setting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again. The Khaavren Romances, set in the world of Vlad Taltos's Dragaera: 1. The Phoenix Guards 2. Five Hundred Years After 3. The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 1) 4. The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 2) 5. Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 3) The Baron of Magister Valley [standalone] At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Melissa Flores
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Pushed to breaking point and with her allies' resolve wavering, Bibi makes a deal with an old friend that could change everything. Can San Francisco be saved? Does Bibi even want to save it anymore? And what is the horrifying secret of Jimmi Moss? THE DEAD LUCKY is a Massive-Verse series.
Author: Walter Simonson
Publisher: Ragnarok
ISBN: 9781631408830
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Ragnarök, the doom of the gods, has finally occurred. But the long-held belief that evil would be destroyed along with the gods in that final conflagration proved false. Only the gods died. The Nine Worlds collapsed and became the Dusk Lands, a vast twilight realm inhabited by men, trolls, demons, and shattered kingdoms, under the tyranny of the Great Enemies. After hundreds of years, a single god emerged into the post-Ragnarök world, Thor, the God of Thunder. But Angantyr, the Lord of the Dead, has discovered his reappearance, and unleashes his draugar, the undead walkers, against the Thunder God, seeking to destroy the last vestige of the former worlds, and the only hope for the present one.
Author: Foy Scalf
Publisher: Oriental Institute Press
ISBN: 9781614910381
Category : Book of the dead
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
